Nurses' career choice and satisfaction with mental health transition-to-practice programs: A cross sectional study

IF 2.6 4区医学 Q1 NURSING

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI:10.1111/jpm.13035

Louise Alexander, Nigel Toomey, Kim Foster

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Abstract

What Is Known on the Subject?

There are significant issues recruiting nurses into mental health due to several reasons such as dilution of curriculum, and mental health being an unpopular career choice
Transition programs provide nurses entering mental health with orientation, academic and clinical skills, and knowledge.

What the Paper Adds to Existing Knowledge?

Transition programs need to be nuanced to specialty areas (e.g. community) to ensure nurses are given the support necessary to remain working in the field.
Many nurses choose to work in mental health due to a lived or personal experience and as such strengthening wellbeing supports for transitioning nurses is an important role in retention.

What Are the Implications for Practice?

Tailored transition programs can help strengthen mental health nurse role clarity, and support staff retention.
Transition programs should be a segue to formal postgraduate studies in mental health nursing to strengthen professional practice and retention of nurses.

Introduction

Globally, there are consistent issues recruiting staff into the mental health nursing workforce. In Australia, recent efforts to expand the workforce include recruitment of a wider range of nurses in addition to new graduates into mental health transition-to-practice programs. Understanding the career motivations of nurses entering the field is an important element of recruitment and retention.

Aim

To describe nurses' satisfaction with their mental health transition program and identify factors influencing their choice of mental health as a career.

Methods

An online cross-sectional survey with questions on program satisfaction and career choice was responded to by n = 55 enrolled and registered nurses in a mental health transition program.

Results

Nurses reported overall high satisfaction with their program and identified increased time release for professional development and being supernumerary as necessary to support role development. Almost 25% of nurses reported personal experience of mental illness as an influence in choosing a mental health career.

Discussion

Mental health transition programs are important in recruitment and retention and need to be tailored to the needs of a wide range of nurses and include support for staff wellbeing.

Implications for Practice

Tailored transition programs can help strengthen role clarity, and support staff retention.

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护士的职业选择和对心理健康过渡到执业计划的满意度：一项横断面研究。

由于课程稀释、心理健康是不受欢迎的职业选择等原因，招聘护士从事心理健康工作存在很大问题。本文对现有知识有何补充？过渡项目需要根据专业领域（如社区）进行细化，以确保护士获得必要的支持，从而继续在该领域工作。许多护士选择从事心理健康工作是由于其生活或个人经历，因此，加强对过渡时期护士的福利支持在留住护士方面起着重要作用。这对实践有何意义？量身定制的过渡项目有助于加强心理健康护士的角色清晰度，并为留住员工提供支持。过渡项目应该成为心理健康护理专业正式研究生课程的一个过渡，以加强护士的专业实践并留住人才。摘要：引言：在全球范围内，心理健康护理人员的招聘一直存在问题。在澳大利亚，最近为扩大护士队伍所做的努力包括招聘更广泛的护士，以及招聘应届毕业生参加心理健康过渡到实践项目。目的：描述护士对其心理健康过渡项目的满意度，并确定影响其选择心理健康作为职业的因素：方法：对参加心理健康过渡项目的 n = 55 名注册护士进行在线横截面调查，调查内容包括项目满意度和职业选择等问题：结果：护士们对自己的项目总体满意度较高，并认为增加专业发展的时间和编外人员是支持角色发展的必要条件。近 25% 的护士表示，个人的精神疾病经历是影响其选择心理健康职业的一个因素：讨论：心理健康过渡项目对于招聘和留住人才非常重要，需要根据不同护士的需求量身定制，并包括对员工福利的支持：实践启示：量身定制的过渡计划有助于加强角色清晰度，并为留住员工提供支持。

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Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 医学-护理

CiteScore

4.70

自引率

3.70%

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审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing is an international journal which publishes research and scholarly papers that advance the development of policy, practice, research and education in all aspects of mental health nursing. We publish rigorously conducted research, literature reviews, essays and debates, and consumer practitioner narratives; all of which add new knowledge and advance practice globally. All papers must have clear implications for mental health nursing either solely or part of multidisciplinary practice. Papers are welcomed which draw on single or multiple research and academic disciplines. We give space to practitioner and consumer perspectives and ensure research published in the journal can be understood by a wide audience. We encourage critical debate and exchange of ideas and therefore welcome letters to the editor and essays and debates in mental health.